Dr Wenjian Jiang tells us about his VCF Fellowship experience

Hello everyone, this is Wenjian Jiang, cardiac surgeon from Beijing Anzhen Hospital [in China]. In 2019 the Victor Chang Foundation was able to grant funds to bring me to Australia and train under Dr Paul Jansz at St Vincent’s Hospital [Sydney] for two years. 

Actually, I had been greatly inspired by Dr Victor Chang, a legendary cardiac surgeon, and so it was my great honour to be awarded as the inaugural Victor Chang Foundation Surgical Fellowship. 

Frankly speaking it was a great turn in the course of my professional life. Before that, I was an aortic surgeon and I had no experience about heart transplantation and little about valve surgeries.

During the two-year training at St Vincent's Hospital I helped more that 70 cases of heart transplantations, 30 cases of retrievals and 500 cases of other cardiothoracic surgeries.

This experience is very important for me to [take back] to China and now I’m working at Beijing Anzhen Hospital as a consultant and professor of the heart valve surgery centre and the heart transplantation centre.

I want to thank the Victor Chang Foundation, St Vincent’s Hospital and Dr Paul Jansz for their training and I hope all the future trainees could realise their dreams [with] the help of the Victor Chang Foundation.

Thank you.

大家好，我是北京安贞医院心脏外科医生姜文建。 2019 年，Victor Chang 基金会能够拨款将我带到澳大利亚，并在圣文森特医院跟随 Paul Jansz 医生接受为期两年的培训。 

事实上，传奇的心脏外科医生 Victor Chang 医生给了我很大的启发，因此我很荣幸获得首届 Victor Chang 基金会外科奖学金。

坦率地说，这是我职业生涯中的一次重大转折。在那之前，我是一名主动脉外科医生，对心脏移植没有任何经验，对瓣膜手术也知之甚少。

在圣文森特医院的两年培训期间，我帮助了 70 多例心脏植入手术、30 多例取出手术和 500 多例其他心胸外科手术。

这段经历对我[带回]中国非常重要，现在我在北京安贞医院担任心脏瓣膜手术中心和心脏移植中心的顾问和教授。

我要感谢张中山基金会、圣文森特医院和Paul Jansz博士的培训，我希望所有未来的学员都能在张中山基金会的帮助下实现他们的梦想。

谢谢。